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Inner City Blues (Grover Washington Jr. album)

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Released
  
January 3, 1972

Artist
  
Grover Washington Jr.

Producer
  
Creed Taylor

Genres
  
smooth jazz, Jazz fusion

Length
  
35:07

Release date
  
3 January 1972

Label
  
Kudu

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Recorded
  
September 1971Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Inner City Blues(1972)
  
All the King's Horses(1972)

Similar
  
Soul Box, All the King's Horses, Paradise, Feels So Good, A Secret Place

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Inner City Blues is the debut album by saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. It was recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in September 1971 and released in 1972. The title track was a cover of the recent hit by Marvin Gaye released in June 1971. The album also includes a cover of Bill Withers' hit "Ain't No Sunshine", released shortly before recording this album. In 2008, it was reissued on CD by Verve Records.

Contents

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Track listing

  1. "Inner City Blues" (Marvin Gaye, James Nyx Jr.) – 7:10
  2. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 4:38
  3. "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" (Gaye) – 5:07
  4. "Until It's Time for You to Go" (Buffy Saint-Marie) – 4:35
  5. "I Loves You Porgy" (Gershwin, Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 5:05
  6. "Ain't No Sunshine" (Bill Withers)/theme from "Man and Boy" (J.J. Johnson) – 8:32

Personnel

  • Grover Washington Jr. – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
  • Eugene Young, Thad Jones – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Wayne Andre – trombone
  • Don Ashworth – bass
  • Bob James – electric piano, arranger, conductor
  • Richard Tee – organ
  • Eric Gale – guitar
  • Ron Carter – bass, electric bass
  • Idris Muhammad – drums
  • Airto Moreira – percussion
  • Hilda Harris, Marilyn Jackson, Maretha Stewart, Tasha Thomas – vocals

    • Strings

  • Julius Brand
  • Paul Gershman
  • Julius Held
  • Leo Kahn
  • Harry Katzman
  • Raoul Poliakin
  • Max Pollikoff – violin
  • Paul Winter – violin
  • Anthony Sophos – cello
  • Alan Shulman – cello
  • Maurice Brown
  • Charles McCracken

    • Songs

    1Inner City Blues7:12
    2Georgia on My Mind4:42
    3Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)5:07

    References

    Inner City Blues (Grover Washington Jr. album) Wikipedia
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